ReadyNative Free: an Expo boilerplate for React Native

A free Expo SDK 57 starter for iOS and Android with the stack already chosen: Expo Router, NativeWind 4 (Tailwind 3), TanStack Query and Zustand. TypeScript, dark mode, nothing else. MIT licensed - this is v1.3.0 of ready-native-free, the free tier of readynative.app.

git clone https://github.com/ReadyNative/ready-native-free my-app && cd my-app
bun install                  # npm / pnpm / yarn work too (delete bun.lock first)
bun run start                # press i / a, or scan the QR code with Expo Go

Everything here runs in Expo Go; no dev build, no accounts, no keys. start is expo start --go: the tree carries expo-dev-client (for when you add native code), so a bare expo start would wait for a development build instead. Need one later? bun run ios / bun run android builds it; then bun run start:dev. Node 22.18+ required.

What is inside

Piece	What you get
Navigation	Expo Router: tabs, a settings screen, typed routes, an error boundary
UI	NativeWind 4 + Tailwind 3, src/components/ui (Screen, Text, Button, Card, List, …)
Data	TanStack Query with a typed fetch client (src/lib/api/client.ts, src/lib/query.tsx)
State	Zustand stores persisted through src/lib/storage.ts (expo-sqlite/kv-store)
Theme	Design tokens in src/theme/tokens.ts, light / dark / system in the settings screen

Where things are

Path	What it is
src/app	Routes - every file is a screen, _layout.tsx files are navigators
src/screens	Screen bodies; routes stay thin and render one of these
src/components/ui	The UI primitives, plain NativeWind components you own
src/lib	env, storage, the query client, small helpers
src/stores	Zustand stores
src/theme	Tokens, colour scheme, navigation theme
readynative.config.ts	App name, slug, scheme, bundle ids, brand colour - edit this first

Want the rest?

This repo is one fixed stack. ReadyNative Starter is the same app with the picker - 5 UI stacks (NativeWind 4, NativeWind 5 RC, Tamagui, Unistyles, StyleSheet), TanStack Query / Apollo / SWR, Zustand / Jotai, forms, i18n, onboarding, Jest + Maestro tests - plus EAS build and submit profiles, doctor, the icon / splash generator, deep-link files, and AGENTS.md + the architecture graph for your coding agent. ReadyNative Pro adds sign-in (Supabase, Clerk, Better Auth), subscriptions (RevenueCat, Adapty, Stripe), push, analytics, crash reporting, API routes and two finished example apps.

Docs: https://readynative.app/docs/